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About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail
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As a Distinguished, Software Engineer within the Cloud Native Platform team, you will define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for a next-generation secure AI compute platform. You will lead the design of highly scalable distributed systems that combine serverless execution, secure runtime environments, and GPU infrastructure to support autonomous software agents. Your daily work involves architecting workload isolation, networking, and resource governance while optimizing startup latency and operational efficiency. You will utilize technologies including Kubernetes, containers, Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, KVM, QEMU, and Go, Rust, or Java. The role focuses on solving complex distributed systems challenges by building a unified developer platform that provides secure sandboxed execution and CI/CD capabilities for AI-powered workloads and untrusted code at enterprise scale.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Arkansas?
Median $165000 from 155 postings across 3 companies.
Establish engineering standards for reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
Mentor Principal and Staff Engineers through architecture reviews and technical leadership.
Influence technical strategy across multiple organizations by partnering with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams.
What we're looking for
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering (preferred).
Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
Deep expertise with Kubernetes, containers, serverless, GPU, statefulset, CICD, git ops, AgentSandbox, and cloud-native platform technologies.
Expert-level programming experience in Go, Rust, Java, or similar languages.
Strong understanding of operating systems, networking, virtualization, distributed systems, and security fundamentals.
Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies (preferred).